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Re: Hypothetical Question



At 03:12 PM 8/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>> > If your looper had 10 minutes of looping time, what would you do with 
>it?
>> > How would it affect your music?
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>>      couldnt you say that theres a certain point at which sample
>>      time becomes academic? after 1 minute, after 4?
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>I have made songs/EPs that were meant to loop over and over again. I
>create a piece of music that has the beginning blending into the end and
>vice versa. One piece was exactly ten minutes and I recorded it to an
>endless loop cassette. I've also pressed up limited edition 8tracks with
>similar stuff.
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>In this case the "loop" is 5-30 minutes. Sometimes in  live shows I play
>these "loops" throught the mixer and play other instruments/sounds over
>top of them. 
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>Quite frankly I think Joesph makes a very valid point though. My first
>reaction was if there was a 10 minute looper I'd use two minutes and trim
>the rest. However when i started to think about it if you change the
>concept of "song" or put it in a performace mode I bet a number of people
>have already used 10+ minute loops.
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>Personally I wouldn't really give a damn about a piece of hardware that
>would do this though. My portable 8track works just fine for me...
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Hey David,

I used to do the same thing,  only with a four channel tascam.  I used 
3 minute continues loop casette tapes.  I also used a vintage tape
echoplex.  The echoplex tapes where usually about 3 minutes also.  Three
minutes are plenty for looping especially if you're over dubbing.  I still
have a few 
echoplex's that I use once in a while by the way.  One has four line 
inputs.

Mark of b.
aka Theatre of the Mind